Robert Jeffery (priest)

Robert Martin Colquhoun Jeffery AKC FRSA (born 30 April 1935) is a retired Anglican priest.^[1]

Robert Jeffery was educated at St Paul's School, London and King's College London and ordained in 1960.^[2] His first posts were curacies at St Aidan's, Grangetown^[3] and St Mary, Barnes. After this he was the assistant secretary of the Missionary and Ecumenical Council of the Church Assembly then secretary of the Department of Mission and Unity for the British Council of Churches.^[3] From 1971 to 1978 he was vicar of St Andrew's Headington^[4] then Lichfield diocesan missioner. He was appointed as the Archdeacon of Salop,^[5] in 1980 and seven years later became the Dean of Worcester. In 1996 he became Sub Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, a post he held until his retirement in 2002.

References

↑ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
↑ “Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7.
1 2 Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
↑ History of Headington
↑ Manuscripts (MSS 3121–3385), Lambeth Palace Library, The National Archives, UK.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Thomas George Adames Baker	Dean of Worcester 1987–1996	Succeeded by Peter Jerome Marshall

Deans of Worcester

Early modern	Henry Holbeach John Barlow Philip Hawford Seth Holland John Pedder Thomas Wilson Francis Willis Richard Edes James Montague Arthur Lake Joseph Hall William Juxon Roger Maynwaring Christopher Potter Richard Holdsworth John Oliver Thomas Warmestry William Thomas George Hickes William Talbot Francis Hare James Stillingfleet Edmund Marten John Waugh Sir Richard Wrottesley William Digby Robert Foley St Andrew St John

Late modern	Arthur Onslow John Jenkinson James Hook George Murray John Peel Hon Grantham Yorke Lord Alwyne Compton John Gott Robert Forrest William Moore Ede Arthur Davies William Beck Bobby Milburn Eric Kemp Tom Baker Robert Jeffery Peter Marshall Peter Atkinson

Anglican Diocese of Worcester

Worcester Cathedral The Old Palace, Worcester Hartlebury Castle Alvechurch Palace Area scheme (1993–2002)

Office holders	John Inge, Bishop of Worcester Graham Usher, Bishop suffragan of Dudley AEO: Jonathan Goodall, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Peter Atkinson, Dean of Worcester Nikki Groarke, Archdeacon of Dudley Robert Jones, Archdeacon of Worcester

Historic offices	Archdeacon of Gloucester (12th century–1541; became Diocese of Gloucester) Archdeacon of Coventry (1837–1918; became Diocese of Coventry) Archdeacon of Birmingham (1892–1905; became Diocese of Birmingham)

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